Race Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old race quotes, race sayings, and race proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.

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The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.

Mary Mcleod Bethune

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Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

Alfred North Whitehead

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I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.

Michael Bassey Johnson

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The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.

Auguste Comte

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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder.

Raquel Cepeda

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The symbol of the race ought to be a human being carrying an ax, for every human being has one concealed about him somewhere, and is always seeking the opportunity to grind it.

Mark Twain

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No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

Elie Wiesel

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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Booker T. Washington

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Our true nationality is mankind.

H. G. Wells

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The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

Don Marquis

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The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species.

Mahatma Gandhi

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My color is my joy and not my burden.

Bebe Moore Campbell

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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.